WFI Protest: Contemplating Country’s GDP
Gender ideology which makes people shy away from confronting sexual harassment depresses India’s GDP, research output, and strategic capacity.
Category Insights
Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Artificial Intelligence: A Blessing in Disguise
Artificial intelligence can break down language barriers between Indian innovators in cultural production and their potential audiences around the world
The Current Status of Indian Foreign Policy with the G20 Presidency
The #IMPRI Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies (CIRSS), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi conducted a Three-Day Immersive Online Certificate Training Course on ‘India’s G20 Presidency and the Contours of Indian Foreign Policy’ from March 14-16, 2023. Inaugurating the sessions, Mr Aashwash Mahanta, a researcher at IMPRI, welcomed the speakers and participants to the program with an introduction to the eminent panellists. The course was commenced and moderated by Dr Simi Mehta, CEO and Editorial Director at IMPRI, who highlighted our country’s pressing situation.
The Russia-Ukraine Conflict Ceaseless- What’s Next?
Even as Russia’s own Wagner Group Chairman has urged Putin to declare victory and ceasefire after Bakhmut and control of the region in the east strategically designed for control by the Russian planners, and China brought in 12 point peace plan, the observers do not really see an end to the war. Indian PM Narendra Modi has been urging both sides to ceasefire and return to dialogue as he chairs the G20 and has offered India’s assistance in doing so if the warring sides were ready, but there are no signs of ceasefire that one could see yet.
Deputy Appointment and Rishi Sunak’s Vision for the Party
. Last week, where Prime Minister Rishi Sunak finally lost his long-standing ally and deputy, Dominic Raab, he also managed to consolidate his hold over power with the appointment of his close allies to senior positions in the government. Sunak is increasingly making it clear that he is playing a long game and, despite challenges, is unlikely to give up easily.
The Vibrant Villages Programme, against Chinese Expansion
India is pulling out all the stops to reach out to the “first citizens” who reside in hamlets along the India-China border. Under the Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP), nearly 3,000 villages selected along the 3,400-km-long border are set to get better infrastructure facilities, and ₹2,500 crore has been set aside to construct roads.
LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment)
Environmental sustainability refers to ecological balance, and for nearly two thousand years, humans have been carbonizing and degrading our planet, which has contributed to global climate change that is making existence on this planet worrisome. To cope with this issue and achieve a sustainability mission, LiFE was introduced with its proactive global implementation that will bring substantial co-benefits in terms of reducing inequalities in energy consumption, mitigation of air pollution, cost savings, and improvements in well-being and health. Our country is witnessing various challenges, such as a rise in atmospheric CO2 that had never crossed 300 ppm for the last 800,000 years has reached 420 ppm and is still rising, Himalayan ice sheets are melting at a very high pace that is 10 times faster at the last 4 decades than in the last 7 centuries, global sea level is expected to rise 2-6 feet by 2100, and global economy will lose around 18% of GDP by 2050 if no climate action is taken.